Trick-or-Treat Goody Sacks

This morning, Annabel took all the goody sacks that we put together during the weekend to school to be distributed to her friends. Then she came back with more candies from her friends in her class.



An average American spent $40 per household on Halloween candies.


Annabel showing off her goody sacks.




Goody sacks filled with candies and stickers.

About 75% of American celebrate Halloween.

Annabel and Emma helping mommy filling up the sacks.





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Trick-or-Treat
Smell my feet
Give me something good to eat...

We just came back from trick-or-treating in our neighborhood. I will show you the candies Annabel and Emma got from our neighbors in my next post. You will be surprise how much candies the girls got for just a short hour or so and it probably will lasts them for weeks.

Happy Halloween!

The Carved Pumpkins!

Finally, we had our pumpkins carved last weekend. The girls were having so much fun messing around with the pumpkin seeds while mommy was busy carving away.

All three pumpkins turn out pretty good. Annabel's pumpkin is the kitty cat sitting on the moon; Emma's is the evil face while mommy's, of course, the laughing funny face pumpkin. There are now sitting by the doorstep waiting for Halloween night. BOO HOO!!!!

The carved pumpkin, lit by a candle inside, is one of Halloween's most prominent symbols.

This is an Irish tradition of carving a lantern which goes back centuries.



These lanterns are usually carved from a turnip or swede (or more uncommonly a mangelwurzel).





The carving of pumpkins was first associated with Halloween in North America, where the pumpkin was available, and much larger and easier to carve.


Many families that celebrate Halloween carve a pumpkin into a frightening or comical face and place it on their home's doorstep after dark.

Aren't they cute...???

Which pumpkin do you like MOST..???

Pumpkin Illustration Night

Last Friday, we were invited by Annabel's school PTA to attend The Pumpkin Illustration Night held in the school. All children are encouraged to dress up for the night, and of course Emma took part and put on her cute costume.

We were being served pizza and soda for dinner at the cafeteria and to my surprise, there were quite a crowd who turned out despite the rainy weather since morning.

Annabel brought along her carved pumpkin for the Pumpkin Illustration display at the school so we had to carve her pumpkin 3 days before we did Emma's and Mommy's.

There were also book fair in the library, donations and a dance floor for the kids in the gym room.






It was a fun night and we didn't get home till almost 8:30 pm.


Congratulations to Gertrude for her correct answer to my guessing game. Emma is going to be a Ladybug this Halloween.. Isn't she cute..?

Gert, your mystery gift will be mailed to you in a couple of days.

Another Guessing Game - cont'd

Hurry! Hurry! This is another chance for you to win a mystery gift from Cat Cat.

What is Emma going to be on this Halloween?

Just simply throw in your wild guess into my comment box here and you stand a chance to win a prize from me.

Dateline is tonight at 9:00 pm EST. (Do not put your answer in the comment box in this post)... Throw in your comments in my previous post here.

I will annouce the winner tonight.

Another Guessing Game!

Ah, Halloween is around the corner. In my previous post, I have talked about Annabel being an Angel this year for Halloween trick-or-treat night but Emma has yet to decide.

Well, here is another chance for my dear readers to win a cool prize in this guessing game.


What is Emma going to be on this Halloween?


Is she gonna be ............. A Little Devil



or A Pretty Snow White



or perhaps A Cheerleader




Throw in your wild guess in my comment box and you stand a chance to win yet another mystery gift from Cat Cat.

Hint: It's alive, has two colors and it's not a fictional character. No, the answer is NOT any one of the three above.

Deadline to submit your answer is on Monday night, October 29 at 9:00 pm EST.

The first correct answer wins the prize which will be mailed to you FOC (free of charge) anywhere in the world. Each person is allowed to answer once.

Please include your email address in your comment for my non-blogger friends so that I can contact you for mailing address. For my dear blogger friends, I will contact you thru your blog once the winner is announced.


What is this young lady gonna be on Halloween..?????

A&E Pink Pyjamas

Do you wear pyjamas to sleep at night?

I remember when I was a little kid, my mom used to put us in our pyjamas, the two-piece top and bottom chinese (or was it a Malaysian) type of pyjamas that I hated so much. For some reason, I never liked wearing pyjamas to sleep.
This is the pyjamas my mom 'forced' us to wear, yes, every night in the freaking hot weather with no fan and who knows what air-cond was back then.

When I first came to USA, Robert took me to Victoria's Secret, a clothing retailer offering sexy lingerie, swimsuits, women's apparel, fragrances, and bath collections, to shop for some SUPER SEXY HOT lingerie and I had a culture shock for the first time in my life.

I did picked up a couple of black and pink lingerie, nothing too fancy or sexy anything like that but I did wear them a few time, 7 years ago. They are now somewhere in the drawer collecting dust and sad to say, soon to be donated to Goodwill. I never even bother to put it on anymore as I like to sleep with my "B&P", an easy access for hubby when needed, of course after the girls ZZZZZ.

Last night, both of my girls were in their cute pyjamas after their warm bath. Annabel was in her old pyjamas bought last year, still fit her well and Emma was a newly bought from the store a couple weeks ago for $5.99 - what a BARGAIN!










Look at Emma in the last picture. She's absolutely a mess. I asked her to stand nicely on the stool and she gave me that kind of lazy look...


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I was inspired by Beachlover's blog about her "Pig-In-The-Blanket" post and after showing Robert the pictures, he said it looks good and wanted me to make some for lunch. So last Sunday, I made some "PITB" from the pre-made Crescent dough and pre-cooked hotdogs - simple, fast and easy.

Crescent dough $1.49 for 6 big and flaky dough.
Frying hotdogs on the hot pan.
Before baking in the oven at 350F for 25 minutes.
Pig in the blanket

Hot from the oven.